Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

2.1- THE QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY

In order to get information from a large number of subjects, questionnaire survey is used as the main instrument for the study. It is relatively a means of collecting data which are amenable to quantification. Questionnaire survey is a quantitative research method applied on a sample of people in a field investigation and which can be served as statistical inferences (Vilatte, 2007).

2.1.1- General objectives

We have decided to use questionnaire survey as our first research method in order to have an overview of the actual teaching and learning of conditional sentences in some lycées in Antananarivo. Using questionnaire is beneficial because, firstly, the knowledge we need is already controlled by the questions. Therefore, teachers will not have trouble answering them with precision and clarity. The questionnaire is anonymous, so we hope to have honest responses from the teachers.

The purpose of the questionnaire was to know teachers’ views about the teaching of conditional sentences in “première” and “terminale” classes. We asked the teachers whether they teach grammar for a communicative purpose. Furthermore, we asked them about the teaching of conditional sentences itself so as to know students’ problems and teachers’ ways of teaching those grammatical points. In other words, we wanted to know whether the teachers teach conditional sentences in a communicative way and whether they think teaching conditional sentences communicatively will be helpful.